If you had trouble jailbreaking your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch using greenpois0n then here are some troubleshooting tips based on inputs from our fantastic readers that we hope will help you in successfully jailbreaking your iOS device.

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one more thing, if you don't want the animated apple skull icon you get after jailbreaking with greenpois0n. you can ssh into your iphone (using ifunbox)go to usr\bin and delete animate, then you won't get it anymore. (iphonehacks, i think this would be something worth going up into the post)

Is there an APT_GET command to uninstall instead of just deleting. Rather avoid open calls to animate by removing the call altogether.Also, if there's any battery issue tips, I'd LOVE to see some that people have had success with. My next step is a fresh install, jailbreak, then restore. . Rather avoid the icon shuffle turmoil though.

You use it to make the custom firmware (and yets it does make one for 3g... I just did it myself a few days ago for a friend (but haven't had the time to do the deed yet)once you have your CFW, use the latest iReb (same place you download sn0wbreeze) to kick the sG into an pwned DFU state, allowing you to restore to the custom firmware using iTunes.Dunno how much simpler it could get.

I think he refers to the fact that on the iPad the battey icon does't turn red when the charge is 20%. I have been restoring/updating and it works fine in 3.2.2 but not in 4.2.1 so it's probably a bug. What is more: if in 4.2.2 you run an iPhone app the icon turns red...

help needed please……..iphone 3G.version 4.2.1firmware 05.15.04how do i jailbreak this one, my contract will be over soon and the phone will be mind ,so i will ring them up to unlock it.but i want to jailbreak it now,so please help me if you can,thanks!!!!

My camera and photos will not load properly after jailbreaking, has never happened before with other jailbreaking methods... Has this happen to anyone and is this fixable? it keeps saying loading library then closes out of the app...

Same problem as Griffin, its just stuck on the black screen with the white writing and every so often it adds to the list with ;''AppleS5L9820XIOIopManager::init( ): Failed to get AppleS5l9820XARM7M after ____ sec.''

I also have the 4.2.1 version with the 05.15.04 firmware I can't get anything to jailbreak my Iphone3g. I tried one and it just ended up crash my whole phone I had to reboot the phone and lost everything but my pics. I just want a jailbreak to actully work on my unlockable iphone

can someone please help me? i have jailbroken my ipod touch 4G with greenpoizon ad it was great. But after a fiew hours the cydia app went missing. the loader app says tha cydia has been istaled. I dont know what to do. Please help.

I'm getting the same black screen and error message that Griffin wrote about. Just sits there doing nothing until the error comes up. Just updated my ipod Touch 4g on 28/March w/ latest update from Apple.

hey so i just tried to jail break my ipod twice and the first time when it when to the apple screen it wasnt jail broken and so so this time i didnt hold down the home button, well i did for the first half but my thumb got tired, and it still hasnt finished, is that bad?? my brother said it dosnt take long for him, and hes never had to hold down the home button, will it still work?? and how much longer should i wait for it to jail break??

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